I realized that I had wrapped the wiring harness with the wrong width of tape. So I pulled it and redid it with the correct width.

Got in some new grommets for the headlight and fog light wires.

Got the mixing boxes installed

Put new seals on the long to mixing box hoses and installed them with the re plated hose clamps

Time to clean up the carbs

The tunnel is the last part of the car needing some love.

We pulled out the wiring harness to clean out the tunnel and sort out a few wires that had shorted and melted together.

One of the cleaning tools used

Dremel tool on a wand and lots of wire brushes helped to clean out a lot of the areas

As clean as I could get it.

Rust conversation applicator

Cleaned up shifter linkage from the tunnel

Found the other door latch to get cleaned up

Cleaned up the tail light housings

Added new seals

Test fitted some new taillight lenses

Found a very small hole through the bottom of the tunnel that needed welding. Easy fix.

The carbs cleaned up nicely. There a few thing's that are broken and need to be replaced.

Today's fun was cleaning up the wiring harness and figuring out where to start repairing it.

Everywhere the green tape is at is where a wire was melted to nearby wires.

This little bastard was the issue.

A previous owner cut the gray wire here and spliced in something. Does anyone have any ideas on This?
I have cut the wire between the fuse panel in the car and the snorkel but everything after that is encased and I am hoping not to have to cut in to it to repair things. I will be running carbs but was hoping some day to put the FI back one day.

Test fitting some new parts in the car.

Got the Eastwood treatment in the tunnel (you can kind of see the green in the tunnel in the picture above) I treated all the other surfaces inside the car that were not treated. Now waiting for it to dry completely. The high temps this week should help. I have been keeping a fan running to help the drying

Got some help from my big brother Mark (Mikey914)

Got some new 914 Rubber seals in the trunk

Got the new wiring harness insulating sleeves on all of the tabs now

Got the new vent filters in and the re plated door striker plates on the car

Picked up a new wiring harness in great shape to replace my melted harness. I will be working on it tomorrow but the forecast is calling for a high of 107. Hopefully I won't melt working in it.

Ended up pulling the entire harness out

While I'm in there

I will replace the dash face with new metal and vinyl.

Got the old harness out and compared it to the 2 I picked up hoping for a miracle. Unfortunately they did not match up but it did have the needed wires all intact.

tedious work but I was able to get the donor wiring harness broke down

Made some progress today. Went through every wire in the harness pulled the wires that I needed from the donor harness and started putting them in my harness to replace the damaged ones.

Engine is getting closer to being done. Now I need to figure out what transmission to use. I have the one from the 73 that I think will be the upgrade. I will be asking for advice on this swap in a separate thread.

Engine build is progressing along nicely. Case is now closed.

Scott rebuilt the steering rack for me with new bushings and bearings. We will be putting turbo tie rods on next

Added front sway bar with new 914Rubber sway bar bushings.

Cleaning up and replacing everything possible on the suspension.

New struts/shocks from PMB that I bought right after getting the car. Thought I was going to be driving it with just a few tune up items.

Had to figure out how to get the spring purch off. (Thank you Cary)

Cap and purch cleaned up and on the new shock

Rebuild steering rack back in with powder coated parts.

I will be upgrading to a side shift transmission. Getting the already powder coated kit from Bruce Stone.

Adding new 914Rubber control arm bushings.